Erschienen in:
09.06.2016 | Art in Science
Saints Cosmas and Damian: Patron Saints of Medicine
verfasst von:
Gary E. Friedlaender, MD, Linda K. Friedlaender, BA, MS
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 8/2016
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Excerpt
The art of medicine in the 3rd to 4th centuries CE, similar to all times that preceded it, was largely based upon the potential healing benefits found by trial and error in the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms. Surgical approaches to disease, as gleaned from surviving instruments, art, and printed materials, were characterized by cutting, scraping, and probing [
4]. Most medical lore of the era was grounded in religious belief. Indeed, both the leading causes of illness and the most heralded successful treatments were ascribed to the acts of gods/God. …